Somewhat a hollow ring to the saying, “ there will be houses for everyone…” Six hundred million rand has gone missing from the housing project finances. Fifteen billion rand has also gone missing in social services according to a report but this is disgusting when considering the oft highlighted plight of the masses.
R600 MILLION missing in housing. (Read the STORY by Pieter du Toit in the BEELD on the 27 July 2006.)
The recent announcement that the Manganese loading bay in the Port Elizabeth harbour will be moved, perhaps to the Coega deep water Port, is cryptic for the erection of a statue on the deep water side of the harbour dyke. The cost, 360 million rand, perhaps double that amount once it is completed!
The statue dedicated to a man of communist persuasion, will eclipse the dimensions of the “Statue of Liberty”, a kind of Nebuchadnezzan idol in modern times . The statue will purportedly be an engineering marvel built on a man made island which forms part of the harbour wall but will rotate 360 degrees as it follows the sun from dusk to dawn. The structure will sit on pillars drilled deep into the ocean bed and house a museum honouring so called friends of South Africa, the likes of Gaddafi, Arafat, the human rights criminal Mugabe, and others. The construction can be likened to a layered cake, if the plans don’t change; first the stabilising platform emerging from the ocean bed, then the museum, thereafter the statue rising skyward with its raised fist/hand greeting visitors to Algoa Bay. The statue will have an internal concrete or steel structure, perhaps fabricated from stainless steel to prevent ocean corrosion, upon which the moulded sheets of copper will be attached to give it a human embodiment. Behind it the city centre will look on.
Amazing!
A huge sum of money to spend on a man who was never born in the area, did nothing for it’s development, came nearly two centuries after the arrival of the 1820 settlers to claim Port Elizabeth as his own, yet those behind the idea of an extravagent ornament have capitalised on the hard work and ideas of others, to make this plan in the pipeline, a reality. I can already see the [BEE] contractors lining up whilst ringing their hands beside winking government officials dishing out contracts like sweets to the business community. I see major newspapers, including the Eastern Province Herald taking the lead, manufacturing stories of gleaming financial outcomes once the project has been completed, with stated unending benefits to local industry. Officials gauranteeing the forthcoming never ending tourism opportunities, and how South Africa’s image will shine abroad, not forgetting the thousands of jobs which will be generated.
But everyone knows the flipside of this lavish pending project in a third world country, what it means. The compounded interest on money could offset the cost of Aids treatment, clean water, bread, grain, medicines, hospitalisation, schools, libraries and a host of other pressing needs which in themselves are job creators. I am an outsider looking in and not part of South Africa's community, a community from which there must surely be a cry from those who have struggled unnecessarily in life, “don’t let the injustices of the past, be the injustice of the future.”
South Africa within a short space of 30 years will be reaching its 1 millionth violent murder if the statistics don't climb, would the money not be better spent on protecting the children of the future?
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it"
Ayn Rand
Drs. Cecil and Mary O’Brien, two missionaries from Northern Ireland, founded the “Elim” Mission station in 1951 (Exodus 15:27) when they settled at Iyanga North, at Katerere in Southern Rhodesia, which then became Rhodesia, and since Zimbabwe. Another missionary with Irish roots born in Culleybackey married Joyce Pickering from the mission, and they had a 6 week old baby Pamela Grace when the terrorists struck. “Elim” was founded on the FAITH and calling of JESUS CHRIST. JESUS said: “If they hated me they will also hate you” and these prophetic words certainly ring true in the case of “Elim”. On the 23rd June 1978 all thirteen missionaries at “Elim” including their children were massacred by mugabwian terrorist savages. These massacres are similar in intensity and brutality against Christian Minority communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa at this present time and come with an ominous warning. (Pictures downloaded from website www.africancrisis.org/photos8.asp in Jan Lamprecht’s article entitled Anatomy of Terror. )
The kind of human rights criminal who is said will be displayed in the statue museum to be built against the harbour wall in Port Elizabeth.
Blacks SLIT THROAT of FATHER Delcan Collins from Ireland in his home in South Africa for nothing more than his wallet (PICTURE and STORY: From THE STAR 18th November 2003.)
